Land Services SA

Land titles registry

Registers dealings in land, including transfers of title, plans of subdivision and strata plans. A registry is a queue, not an assessor: it checks form, not merit.

Land registries appear at the end of almost every property process in this database, and they are consistently the least examined source of delay.

Registration is not an assessment of anything. The registry checks that a plan or dealing is in order and records it. Where that takes weeks, the delay is queueing, and it lands at the point of maximum holding cost -- after construction is finished and before anything can be sold or settled.

Where this body appears in a process

Every point at which Land Services SA can hold something up, and why.

Process	Step	Why it waits	Clock	Typical
Build a multi storey apartment building — South Australia	Register the plan of strata registration	queue	—	30
Buy land and build a single storey house — South Australia	Settlement period registration	third party	—	30
Buy land and build a single storey house — South Australia	Transfer of title registered registration	third party	—	14
Build a block of townhouses — South Australia	Register the plan of subdivision registration	queue	—	30